Who is she? Hound.

Just me and D2 this week. Touch and go whether or not there would be a quiz for a while. 4th team only arrived circa 8.30.

We made a poor fist of these pictures, all actresses.

To be fair, Daren suggested that the first one was Viven Leigh but I wasn’t having it. Halle Berry still doesn’t look like Halle Berry to me.

Current Affairs a bit better, D2 knew about a Dutch King piloting a charter flight and that Leigh-on-Sea is the happiest place in England. Cue joke about my in-laws who live there.

Geography in song lyrics next. Saw you last night in Glasgow, Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, Caught between the moon and New York City, that sort of thing. A pattern was developing here with D2 getting more right than me. Frankly baffling Tom Petty lyric included, where the hell is Reseda anyway? Not an easy round.

Year was 1974. This woman was famously kidnapped...

Patty Hearst, an heiress to something or other. We should have got it from Bagpuss to be fair, but went 1972. 

Managed the ten pointers with Harry Redknapp being the last Englishman to manage an FA Cup winning team, answered correctly by guess who? D2 again.

2 errors in the chain letters round. This lot are called the Na’vi..

... and Mansell not Piquet won the F1 title in 1992.

Unfortunately 2 errors, in the Jeopardy round as well, ending our chances of first place. 

We mixed this fellas boxing record up with that of Henry Cooper...

Brian London. Also confused gelatin and pectin.

King Kong Balls first again, well ahead of us.

Big shout for the teachers, ‘Consistently Last’ dubbed ‘Optimistically First’ for the day, managed 3rd place ahead of LATT.

G-Force.

Beer Sloshed Hound

Well for once I have a valid excuse for a blog light on content. No need to rely on "left my notes on the bus" or "memory failed yet again", this time around half way through notes, pictures, quiz answers, trousers got a good dousing and were rendered virtually useless, slight exaggeration on the trousers there.

Four contenders, Daren, Kevin, Graham and myself, and we faced by a bunch, of mainly A list actors. That would certainly apply to the likes of Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reaves. But if number 7 has a claim to fame other than looking a bit like Gary Barlow, none of us knew about it. The geezer with the Phil Oakey haircut escaped us as well.

Onto current affairs and such newsworthy items as a portrait of Charles Dickens has surfaced in South Africa. Apparently the owners have great expectations for the auction price.


Ok, lets move onto Round 3 and could it be magic? Actually it could with a magically themed round which managed to avoid all of the Harry Potter Universe. So we had the Magic Flute, Magic Johnson, the Magical Mystery Tour and the Magic Roundabout.


Name the year took us back a bit further than recently and events such as the closing of US relations with Cuba, Alcatraz ceasing to be in use and the 35th academy awards stretched all our memories. The Great Train Robbery was the event to anchor it all in 1963 though.


Ten pointers and well done on G Force for bagging the Globe theatre resurfaced on the South Bank in 1997 after a 353 year absence and we were in the mix. Ok the link-up notes did got soaked so onto jeopardy and fairly smooth sailing for most of the way until our progress was hijacked by the er hijacking of this vessel.

Prudence prevailed and nine answers were submitted. Can't remember much of the music but I'm sure there was some Olly Murs in there and the first telephone directory had 50 names in it, well done Kevster. Curiously no numbers though, it merely listed the people and businesses who had telephones. Right. Ok the important thing, Hound win!

And plans for the Christmas Hound do, something like this.

Definitely gets me out of my comfort zone. One that would get me back into it was Kevster's suggestion of an A25 crawl, maybe out to Shalford and back by bus, train or taxi or walk to Dorking. All options possible.


I'm away for the next two weeks but have every confidence in our youth system to pick things up while I'm off.

Hound and The Farmer

Well there wasn't a quiz at the PA this week. 3 fairly scrawny looking teams weren't enough, although it would have left the pub looking mighty quiet afterwards. So a quick think and not wanting to be denied a Thursday quiz, it was off to the Farmers.

Well, we missed the first round but joined for music and round 2. Now from memory, Theo used to like his girl bands, Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud and the like. You know what, none of those. In fact very similar fare to the PA really, not a great deal before around 1986, which is the way we seem to like it. KC and the Sunshine Band featured a lot.

Anyway, we must have done fantastically well, because you know what. we'd caught up after the music and were just around 1 point behind the leaders! Next up was the general assorted mixed bag that comprises round 3, nothing changes here folks.


Notes are pretty shabby here but who founded the Royal Navy? Well I'd always thought it was around Henry VIII kind of time but Alfred The Great apparently. Whereas in the PA there's a disproportionate reliance on the answers to the ten pointers and the Jeopardy, here none of the answers really matter so you just shrug and move on. So which John was in The Muppet Caper?

Nope, can't see him in there. Cleese apparently, think we went Denver. And when was New Year's Day, in 1752 and earlier? 25th March apparently, 1st January was the Feast of the Circumcision. Ouch!


The things you learn eh? And this film featured somewhere.

Okay, we didn't win, but we didn't expect to and we did miss the first thirty questions. Must be doing something right though, ten teams I think.


Laters.

Skull & Crossmoans Hound

Team of 3 this week, myself, Daren and Steve.

Pictures are fictional detectives, still not sure about 6, something to do with Monk maybe?

6 correct for Current Affairs round, a bellringer is suing after breaking both ankles when he quite literally got carried away.

This beautiful beast won GB’s first Melbourne Cup, horse isn’t bad either. Cross Counter.

British TV comedy and the year 1992 rounds followed, we were a year out. We got the tens, good call by Steve, pastry used for Cornish pasties is Shortcrust. This chap, Percy Blakeney, was also worth ten.

Clean sweep on chain letters, so in decent shape going into Jeopardy round.

Jeopardy round easier than normal, perhaps a reaction to everybody going bust last time out. We got first nine, with only California as US state with largest population being much less than 100%. That was right, but what part of the body is the Occipital bone in? We ruled out hands/feet/limbs, not many other parts have multiple bones but went for ear without considering skull...

It’s the green bit at the back. We were right to go for it as King Kong Balls lived up to their name and boldly got them all. Despite a lacklustre music round we would have prevailed by a single point had we guessed right. 

Both of my fellow quizzers had to leave early for differing reasons, so I arrived home (relatively) sober for the first time in a while.

G-Force

Commando Hound

Quick mention of quiz on 25 October. I was supposedy to be blogging but neglected to do so. Only sure of 1 thing, we didn’t win. Great effort by Lady and the Tramp in the Jeopardy round if I remember correctly. This may have been the Picture Round rotated by 90 degrees.

Onto this week’s quiz. This was the Picture Round, normal orientation.

Character names required. Didn’t do awfully well, maybe should of got Annie Wilks for the last one.

My notes don’t allow much more elaboration. At least not until the ten pointers. Gerry correctly named Sputnik as Earth’s first artificial satellite, but was voted down in favour of Telstar by myself and D2. Robin arrived on the scene, hot from playing Bridge in Coulsdon, and would have sided with Gerry so who knows what might have been.

Anyway, fast forward to the Jeopardy round and everybody but the Anoraks is going for it. A good effort but we didn’t know that Sachet Torte has a layer of Apricot jam in it.

Seems like even the Anoraks blew this round, although we managed double jeopardy by also getting another question wrong. Apparently as well as an overfilled sandwich a Sloppy Joe is also a sweater which was the garment of choice for US women during the war, or that bit of it that they bothered turning up for anyway.

A good turnout this week and all scores bunched in the 110 - 130 region. No Robson again next week, so extra manpower welcome.

No curry this time, instead pizza and red wine from the bottle in Purley’s only 2am food joint. 

And finally this week’s title is a nod to a gym/swimming baths mix-up which led to one of our number apparently going sans boxers/briefs. The same person slipped off to the loos at one point with a little pot contains Charlie in some form or other. Just another Thursday evening In the PA that has seen Irish waltzing and a punter circumnavigating the inside of the pub on a bicycle recently. 

G-Force